Where to watch the FA Cup in London this weekend
The fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup gets underway this weekend with several mouth-watering London ties to get your teeth into. The BBC will broadcast Saturday's early kick-off between St Albans City and Boreham Wood. The Hertfordshire derby, to be played at Clarence Park, sees local rivals St Albans of the sixth tier pitted against Boreham Wood of the fifth tier, with a large crowd expected to turn out just north of the capital. Elsewhere, TV commentator Martin Tyler's club Hampton & Richmond...
Premier League Predictions
World Cup qualification is over, meaning the Premier League returns this weekend with some exciting match ups. Liverpool and Man Utd face off Saturday lunchtime in the weekend’s biggest fixture. The Red Devils have had a great start to the season, but a trip to Anfield will be their toughest challenge yet. Crystal Palace’s struggles only get harder as they take on the champions Chelsea at Selhurst Park, while Man City look to remain unbeaten taking on Stoke at home....
Three coppers face disciplinary hearing after man dies in custody after suffering a fit and no medics were called
Three coppers watched a man in custody suffer a head injury and a ten-minute fit but failed to alert doctors - 48 hours before he was found dead in his cell, a disciplinary heard was told. David Fournier D'albe, 40, was found unresponsive in a police cell at 03.20am on December 30, 2014, and was pronounced dead by paramedics shortly after. He had been arrested two days beforehand for criminal damage following a "difficult incident" on the street that had...
Hospitals Beat Bed Blocking By Using Floor Of Local Care Home – At Third Of The Cost
A hospital is beating bed-blocking by sending elderly patients to a care home - at a THIRD of the cost of keeping them on wards. An entire floor on a newly-built care home has been commissioned so patients from Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil, Somerset, can leave hospital. Pensioners who no longer need to be monitored by medics but are not able to live safely and independently at home can go there. And instead of sitting on hospital wards waiting...
Outrage as students wear vile ‘consent is a myth’ t-shirts on bar crawl
Horrified drinkers have spoken of their disgust after a group of students on an annual bar crawl wrote "CONSENT IS A MYTH" on their t-shirts. According to people who attended the student event, other t-shirts had "rape is not a crime" and "she CAN be asking for it" hand-written on them. The group, consisting of five males and one female, were allegedly refused drinks at the bar and told to leave by shocked bar staff. A student wearing the 'consent...
Liam Fox convenes new board of trade – and he’s the ONLY member
Liam Fox has announced a new board of trade with just one member - himself. Announcing the board today the Department for International Trade said it would “ensure the benefits of free trade are spread throughout the UK”, naming more than a dozen advisers to the body including former ministers and business leaders. However, the Secretary of State for International Trade is the only official member of the board and would be its chair. To put that into context, a...
Lloyds bar £1 coin sign leaves customers baffled
A sign in a Lloyds Bar has left customers baffled this week. The notice warned locals that the bar would not be accepting the old £1 coin but would give them out as change. The old "round pound" will stop being legal tender on Sunday October 15, which means legally the Wetherspoons chain has to accept them. But that wasn't an option for customers at one chain after a notice warned that they wouldn't be allowed to use them as...
Man dies after choking on a kebab while drinking down the pub with his mates
A man died after choking on a kebab in the toilets of his local pub. Dai ‘Radar’ Rees, 51, was enjoying a night out with friends when he popped out to buy the snack at 9pm. But he returned to the bar choking and ran to the toilet - where his friends later found him unconscious. Freelance journalist John Adey, 68, was drinking with Mr Rees at The Lamb Inn in Cardigan, west Wales, at the time of the tragedy....
David Lammy MP backs call to break ‘us and them’ divide between youth and police
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP, head of the recently released Inquiry into Racial Disproportionality and the Criminal Justice System, was among leading speakers at the ‘Ubuntu* Police and Youth Engagement Symposium,’ hosted by the Tutu Foundation UK at the House of Lords on Tuesday 10th October. The event reviewed the interim findings of an external evaluation of the ‘Ubuntu* Police Youth Roundtable Project,’ an initiative aiming to diffuse tensions in high crime areas by encouraging positive dialogue between the...